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Warmongers answered

40,000 B.C. CITIZENS
APPEAL FOR PEACE PACT

Charge U.S.
planning air
war on China

MANILA

The Tokyo staff of General Mat-

Cw B. Ridgway, United States
Commander-in-Chief in the Far
“ast, is concentrating on prepara-
‘On of air operations against

ina, it is reported here.
_ U.S. chiefs of staff have been
‘nformed that, on Washington’s
'rective, their staffs have a free
2nd in the independent tackling

°f problems concerning both the

* haracter and the course of fur-

€r military operations in Korea
And China. In close cooperation
With the| intelligence department
at Ridgway’s staff, the staff of
-General George Startemey-
e U.S. commander for East air
aoe, has organised aj detailed
“connaissance of objectives for
*mber attacks behind the Yalu
“Iver and on China’s Hastern
Coast,

American headquarters are also
"Ncentrating on Japanese air-
elds a great number of jet.bomb-

c

.

cit, Pictures here show Chinese
wi€s already bombed by U.S.

The Vancouver Sun asserted editorially this

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week that “. . . we are definitely at war ‘with Rus-
sia, but the people of this province are providing
their own answer to such warmongering in the daily
press. More than 40,000 of them have signed the
world peace petition urging the Canadian goverment

to call for conclusion of a pact of peace among the five great powers,
B.C. Peace Council announced this week.

In Vancouver alone about 34,000 citizens have signed the World

Peace Pact petition.

“The response is excellent,” states a Council press release. ‘“‘It
proves what we have so often said: that the people do not want war

and are always anxious to find a
way to express themselves for
peace.” ee

Last,;Saturday, June 2, 8,349
people in Greater Vancouver sign-
ed the petition as B.C. petitioners
engaged in a friendly competition
with Toronto. Vancouver again
made a better showing than Toron-
to where 4570 signatures were
collected.

The assembly reported that
many petitioners are now over the
300 mark and at least seven are
over 500.

North Vancouver collected 687
signatures Saturday, Audry-Bran-
don, of North Vancouver, who
turned in more than 200 on the
one day, now tops the 600 mark.
Barbara Stewart, also of North
Vancouver, collected close to 200
Saturday.

Another high petitioner Satur-
day was Art Lindberg. of Van-

couver who collected more than
200 signatures.

Close to 800 signatures were

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See APPEAL

Vancouver vies
with Sydney
in peace drive

Vancouver Peace Assembly,
which in two Saturday canvasses
has collected a total of 19,849 sig-
natures to the world peace pact
petition, excelling the 8,065 signa-
tures obtained by Toronto Peace
Council, is now looking farther
afield for competition in its bid
to enroll a majority of B.C. citi-
zens behind its campaign for
peace.

This week Ray Gardner, B.C.
Peace Council executive secretary,
challenged the peace movement in
Sydney, Australia, through Alec
Robertson, its national organizer,
to a one-day competiion on June
23;

In 1947 Gardner and Robertson
spent a year together in Britain
as winners of Kemsley newspaper
scholarships.

PEACE DEMAND WORLD-WIDE

news agency.

Five-Power Peace. Pact.

and almost 700,600 in Austria.

250 million sign appeal

More than 250,000,000 people throughout the world have
signed the World Peace Council Appeal ‘for a Five-Power Peace
Pact, according to a preliminary survey made by Telepress

In Poland alone, more than 15,000,000 people—two-thirds of
the total population—signed the appeal during four days. In
Rumania about 10,000,000 workers signed the appeal, in Hun-
gary almost 6,000,000, in Bulgaria more than. 5,000,000, in Al-
bania 900,000, in Korea 5,000,000, and in Czechoslovakia prepara-
tions for a people’splebiscite on the appeal are under way.

In China, more than half of the population has voted for a

During the first few days and weeks of the signature cam-
paign in the capitalist countries, 90,000 people signed the appeal
in Holland, 80,000 in Denmark, 56,000 in Finland, 600,000 in Iran,

PRAGUE

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